SEC filing reveals Dell's plan to offer cash bonus rewards for the retention of 'critical' executives, while Michael Dell's email to employees says the company can't afford not to invest in the future.

In response to CRN's report that Lenovo is the top candidate to buy IBM's x86 server hardware business, Lenovo's chairman and CEO confirms 'preliminary negotiations with a third party in connection with a potential acquisition.'

IBM is in talks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as part of its ongoing campaign to decrease its reliance on low-margin hardware and sharpen its focus on high-margin services, CRN has learned.

While the new HP Moonshot servers from Hewlett-Packard are initially shipping with server cartridges based on Intel's "Centerton" S1200 Atom processors, Calxeda says new Moonshots using its EnergyCore ARM technology are on the way.

The high-density, low-power-consumption HP Moonshot servers are now commercially available with Intel Atom S1200 "Centerton" processors, but versions based on other CPUs including the Intel "Avoton" and Calxeda EnergyCore ARM are expected to ship later this year.

While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.